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Andrew N. Kowtalo

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Shabarinath Ramadasan thank you so much for your most excellent feed back. &nbsp; This helped a TON! &nbsp;I wish every response I get here in EE was exactly like this. &nbsp; <br />
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I will perform these tasks and let you know how it goes. &nbsp; Happy New Year and Thank you!
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Shabarinath Ramadasan thank you so much for your most excellent feed back.   This helped a TON!  I wish every response I get here in EE was exactly like this.  

I will perform these tasks and let you know how it goes.   Happy New Year and Thank you!

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Does anyone have pre-designed powershell scripts I can run on Server 2012 R2 to do AD cleanup? &nbsp;I would like to cleanup old accounts machines OU's and groups. &nbsp; I found some power shell scripts on Microsofts site but they just open prompt a message really quick that I cant read and close. &nbsp;I just need a general cleanup Thank you.
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Does anyone have pre-designed powershell scripts I can run on Server 2012 R2 to do AD cleanup?  I would like to cleanup old accounts machines OU's and groups.   I found some power shell scripts on Microsofts site but they just open prompt a message really quick that I cant read and close.  I just need a general cleanup Thank you.

Premade Powershell Scripts to cleanup AD

Windows PowerShell is a task automation and configuration management framework from Microsoft, consisting of a command-line shell and associated scripting language built on the .NET Framework. PowerShell provides full access to the Component Object Model (COM) and Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), enabling administrators to perform administrative tasks on both local and remote Windows systems as well as WS-Management and Common Information Model (CIM) enabling management of remote Linux systems and network devices.

Powershell

The Microsoft Server topic includes all of the legacy versions of the operating system, including the Windows NT 3.1, NT 3.5, NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 and Windows Home Server versions.

Microsoft Server OS

Windows Server 2012 is the server version of Windows 8 and the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2012 is the first version of Windows Server to have no support for Itanium-based computers since Windows NT 4.0. Windows Server 2012, now in its second release (Windows Server 2012 Release 2) includes Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter, and does not support IA-32 or IA-64 processors.

Windows Server 2012

Active Directory (AD) is a Microsoft brand for identity-related capabilities. In the on-premises world, Windows Server AD provides a set of identity capabilities and services, and is hugely popular (88% of Fortune 1000 and 95% of enterprises use AD). This topic includes all things Active Directory including DNS, Group Policy, DFS, troubleshooting, ADFS, and all other topics under the Microsoft AD and identity umbrella.